LifeWings in the Media

Read about the success of our programs and our clients who are making dramatic patient safety improvements every day.

11/11	LifeWings Announces Expansion into the Netherlands, Elsevier November 2011
9/09	1st Annual OR Excellence Awards from Outpatient Surgery
1/09	Creating and Sustaining a Culture of Safety, By Stephen W. Harden from Patient Safety & Quality Healthcare
1/09	Birth of ‘Super PSOs’: Patient safety organizations to improve health care from the Memphis Business Journal.
8/08	Crew Training wins $50M federal deal Memphis flight-instruction firm to teach military pilots from The Commercial Appeal
7/08	Program takes wing at hospital from the Statesman Journal.
7/08	Aviation Training Methods Help Hospitals Decrease Medical Errors from NurseZone.com
6/08	Applying Aviation Safety Techniques to Medicine from the Reporter.
04/08	5th Annual Interclerkship Day: Improving Patient Safety from the Jefferson Medical College Health Policy Newsletter
04/08	Hospital training program teaches techniques used in aviation from the Sacramento Business Journal.
04/08	Provena St. Mary’s Hospital Enlists Former Fighter Pilots to Assist with Patient Safety Training from the Proven St. Mary's Hospital News Room
04/08	Advancing Safety in Pediatric Cardiology - Approaches Developed in Aviation from Congenital Cardiology Today
02/08	Hospital safety takes page out of Top Gun manual from the Chicago Tribune.
01/08	Training aims to improve teamwork in operating room from the Omaha World Herald.
01/08	Preventing Medical Mistakes from Medical Breakthroughs
11/07	IHI Campaign Blog. Progress in the 5 Million Lives Campaign. Cambridge, MA: IHI. (Available on www.IHI.org.)
10/07	Safety trainers for airlines flying in to aid Mt. Carmel from Columbus Business First
10/07	Bill of Health - Hospital Safety Plan from the PBS Nightly Business Report
10/07	Interview With Steve Harden, CEO of LifeWings from Health Business Blog
09/07	Hospital Hones Procedures With Pilot Precision from Nashville Medical News.
09/07	Listen to LifeWings Steve Harden in an interview with 610WIOD, South Florida's News Station.Listen Now!
09/07	"Why can't I get my employees to do the things I ask them to do?" from OR Connection
09/07	"Patient-safety program takes flight at Methodist Hospital" from The Philadelphia Business Journal
09/07	"Safety prone" from Government Health IT.
09/07	"Memorial Healthcare System gets aviation-style safety training" from Florida Medical Business.
8/07	"Aviation principles applied to improve safety" from the Poughkeepsie Journal
06/07	"New OR LifeWings like a preflight check" from the Murfreesboro Post
06/07	LifeWings Program to Continue Enhancing Patient Safety from Provena Health News Room
06/07	Adopting Cross-Industry Best Practices for Measurable Results from Healthcare Executive
05/07	Personalities: From Outer Space to Healthcare from HealthLeaders
04/07	Top Gun Pilot Shows Caregivers How to Avoid Mistakes from advance For Respiratory Care Practitioners
04/07	Read about LifeWings at the University of California San Diego in Cutting-Edge Patient Safety Training Taking Flight at UCSD Medical Center from UCSD News Center
03/07	Read about LifeWings CEO Steve Harden in "Flight for Life: An aviator takes the principles of teamwork to new heights in the health-care industry " from Entrepreneur Magazine.
03/07	New Program Lifts University Of Texas Medical Branch Above National Norm For Patient Safety from UTMB Newsroom
02/07	Read about LifeWings in When is an operating room like a cockpit? from Air & Space Smithsonian
01/07	Read about LifeWings' client being interviewed by CNN in "National news program films at Vassar Brothers Medical Center" from The Hospital Newspaper
01/07	Read about LifeWings' success in "Healthy course: Pilot trainers apply aviation communication techniques to improve teamwork in hospitals." from The Memphis Business Journal
01/07	Read about LifeWings' client Nebraska Medical Center's success with our solutions in "A Crash's Improbable Impact: '82 Air Florida Tragedy Led To Broad Safety Reforms" from The Washington Post (free registration at the Washington Post website is required).
12/06	Entrepreneurs use lessons learned at FedEx to launch new ventures from the Memphis Business Journal
11/06	"Pilot safety translates to UNC Hospitals' efforts" in The Daily Tar Heel
11/06	Pilots Teaching Patient Safety At Hospitals in The PIAA Physician Insurer Magazine News brief
11/06	"What Pilots Can Teach Hospitals About Patient Safety" in The New York Times (registration at the NYT website required)
10/06	Top Guns Swoop Down On Hospital Teaching Ways to Increase Patient Safety in The Heart Of Holy Cross Hospital
09/06	"Rethinking Patient Safety" in HealthLeaders Magazine
08/06	Ensuring Patient Safety And Quality: How Internal Audit Fits In" in the Association of Healthcare Internal Auditors New Perspective Magazine
07/06	"Standardizing Safety: Borrowing Lessons Learned from the Airline Industry, Hospitals See the Results of Teamwork and Clear Communication" in Trustee Magazine
07/06	"Will Your Hospital Hire A Top Gun?" in Medical Economics Magazine
07/06	Training Solution for Medical Errors" in EMS Responder.com
06/06	Read comments from the University of Missouri Hospitals And Clinic's Chief of Staff on LifeWings® training from Inside Track, the UMHC newsletter.
05/06	Fighter Pilot Program Aids In Nurse Retention" Nursezone
05/06	Operating Rooms Take Cue From The Cockpit". Nebraska Medical Center Press Release About Their Crew Resource Management Initiative
04/06	"Top Scalpel" featured in the Strategy section of Fast Company.
04/06	Training from Fighter Pilots Helps Some Hospitals Decrease Medical Errors , hfm.
03/06	"Soaring To New Safety Heights" featured in The American Society of Training & Development's T+D Magazine.
07/05	Caregivers Undergoing Aviation Style Training" The Commercial Appeal
02/04	Top Flight Communications Can Save Patients Health" The Tennessean